Reply #8: I don't see how that's possible [View All]

[lunatica]

That idea floated around for about 2 seconds in Berkeley until someone asked about the fact that classrooms have to be kept open and students need to have access to all kinds of help from the department administrators. Student Services, Student Affairs Officers and advisers, receptionists, their mailboxes. Faculty have to be there to give their classes and office hours and the Graduate Student Instructors have do the same thing.

There are also hundreds of labs that need to have electricity all the time and which have anything from toxins to live animals. There's the University health centers for the students which need to stay open. There are a million interrelated connections which makes it impossible to do that. Although the period between Christmas and New Years UC Berkeley shuts down, but the students are gone at that time on their Winter Break and don't get back till later in January.